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Virtualizing a Batch Queuing System at a University Grid Center

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Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops (ISPA 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 4331))

Abstract

Computing clusters of High Energy Physics institutes at universities are often shared between different user groups, having their own requirements concerning the computing infrastructure. Those requirements can lead to incompatibilities between the needed operating systems, software packages, access policies or different grid middlewares. Some of the above incompatibilities can be solved by providing different portal machines for each group. Incompatibilities at the level of the shared worker nodes of the cluster are, however, difficult to overcome.

In this paper, an approach to overcome this incompatibility using the virtualization technique Xen is presented. Each physical worker node hosts different virtual machines, acting as virtual worker node for every group supported at the site. Ways to integrate this into an existing batch queue are shown.

The performance of different programs used in High Energy Physics on native and virtual machines are also presented.

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  1. Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Postfach 6980, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Volker Büge, Yves Kemp, Oliver Oberst & Günter Quast

  2. Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

    Volker Büge & Marcel Kunze

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  1. Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP, Bradford, U.K.

    Geyong Min

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione - Second, University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata - via Roma, 29 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Beniamino Di Martino

  3. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Minyi Guo

  5. Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

    Gudula Rünger

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Büge, V., Kemp, Y., Kunze, M., Oberst, O., Quast, G. (2006). Virtualizing a Batch Queuing System at a University Grid Center. In: Min, G., Di Martino, B., Yang, L.T., Guo, M., Rünger, G. (eds) Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11942634_42

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